Live Breaking News & Updates on Rick Gates On Board
Stay updated with breaking news from Rick gates on board. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Gates is all to blame here. Theyre saying he is the one who stole and embezzled money. Theyre saying hes the one who lied. And now theyre trying flip this on the government. Rick gates will be the governments star witness, but the defense team is saying how can he be your star witness . Rick gates is an admitted liar and he is now cooperating with the government. Whats next for the trial . What happens tomorrow . Just day one, weve already seen a lot. But day two were expecting that the prosecution will be calling two more witnesses. We expect another democratic consultant who worked with Paul Manafort. Were also expecting to hear from an fbi agent. The prosecution here says that they have a witness list of 35 people that they plan to call, but this trial is really only expected to go three weeks. We saw just how fast this trial moved just ....
Gates, of course, was not cooperating until after the charges were filed. they were prepared to proceed without rick gates on board. they have all the documentary evidence. like jeff just said, these are individual income taxes that paul manafort lied about, not to mention some properties on which there was mortgage fraud, had nothing to do with rick gates in the hamptons and in brooklyn. he is going to have a really hard time ping all of this on rick gates, for sure. the push from the president s allies arguing that paul manafort was nobody on their campaign, he only worked there for four months, i think the president said 49 days at one point. they can try to put all the distance they want between him and the president, but he wasn t the coffee boy. he was the campaign chairman. i think the smarter tactic here is to remind people over and over these charges have absolutely nothing to do with the campaign. and even the witnesses being put forward have nothing to do with the campai ....
Relatively shorter amount of time, and he was not the person who ultimately was the campaign manager that took us across the finish line. that was kellyanne, as you know along with steve bannon and a whole host of other folks who were on board. but look, paul manafort, we primarily focused on the convention phase of this, did have a long track record of working with conventions and things like that. but i think one of the other things that i think kind of a little jumbled up in the media is that president trump and manafort weren t particularly close. i don t think that president trump really knew much all about paul manafort s background. these were not two men who would hang out, grab dinner or lunch or chat. but to the point the president constantly saying he hires the best, that seems to imply he knows who he s hiring. your argument is he didn t really know this guy even though he went on tv multiple times and talked about what a great guy he was. well, he got a mulligan in thi ....